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Arcade Bones (Marquee & Dashboard graphics finalised)
DrewKaree:
sucka foo' ;D
elvis:
What I've done for every cab I've ever built so far:
1) Grab a standard AU$5, 4 or 6 point power board from anywhere
2) Grab a AU$4 standard 3-pin australian power connector from Jaycar/Dick Smith/whatever ( Link here ).
3) Drill an 8mm hole in the back of my cabinet
4) Cut the plug off the power board
5) Feed the cut cable through the hole
6) Reconnect with the plug from (2) (no solder needed - just strip the wires and screw in as per the instructions)
7) Jump into your PC BIOS and tell it in the power management section that it should power on after a "Power Failure".
8) Plug everything else into the power board (monitor, speakers, whatever).
9) When needed, plug your cabinet into the wall and turn it on. Everything powers up. When finished, power down your cabinet via your frontend (I use both MAMEWah and AdavnceMenu, and they both support this feature). Turn it all off at the wall. Next time you power on, up comes the PC again!
No crazy power strips needed. If you're afraid of chopping up power boards to add the plug, you can just drill a bigger hole (say, 40mm or so diameter) and feed the original plug through that instead of a smaller hole for just the cable.
Even trickier, if you have a rear door on your cabinet, where the door meets the next panel you can drill a small 8mm hole on the side edge, so that you can easily place the power board cable there, shut the door, and it fits nice and snug.
If all of that sounds too confusing in writing, I can post pics of all three solutions in action.
Bones:
Yeah but I really really, really want the sleep mode function!
elvis:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones on September 14, 2005, 10:30:12 pm ---Yeah but I really really, really want the sleep mode function!
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What for? No trolling intended, I'm just very interested.
My cab takes all of 30 seconds to power up to a fronend, and all of the frontends I use have some sort of slideshow-based screensaver. A sleep mode for me is completely pointless in something as task-specific as an arcade cab.
Bones:
--- Quote from: elvis on September 15, 2005, 01:53:29 am ---What for? No trolling intended, I'm just very interested.
My cab takes all of 30 seconds to power up to a fronend, and all of the frontends I use have some sort of slideshow-based screensaver. A sleep mode for me is completely pointless in something as task-specific as an arcade cab.
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I just read somewhere about the option and it really appealed to me. The truth is without something like this my machine would end up running night and day due to my careless nature. ::)
My hope is to never turn the PC off but rather let the computer shut everything down when it detects zero activity after awhile.
Something about instand on demand gaming really tickles my fancy.
Besides, I brought this crazy kit now so to not attempt assembly would be a almost as stupid as attempting to assemble. Errr..... Or something like that. ;)